William Turnbull, Jr.: Buildings in the Landscape
San Francisco: William Stout Publishers, 2000.
First Edition. Hardcover.
Architectural Monograph 3.
William Turnbull, Jr. first received international attention in the 1960s as a principal of MLTW, designers of the celebrated Condominium I and Athletic Club I at Sea Ranch, an ecologically sensitive Northern California vacation community. Turnbull continued to collaborate with his mentor and friend Charles Moore on small and large-scale architectural projects throughout his career. Yet, it was the smaller rural residences, such as the Johnson House and the Hines House at Sea Ranch, that best explored use of three-dimensional space and best spoke to architecture’s relationship to the landscape. Later as William Turnbull Associates, he continued investigating formal spatial properties, siting, landscape design, and the use of basic, unrefined building materials to fit his houses into their natural surroundings.
This work examines selected residential projects by Turnbull at Sea Ranch, throughout California, and across the country with essays by Donlyn Lyndon, Mitchell Schwarzer, and Mary Griffin. Lyndon, Professor of Architecture at UC Berkeley and Turnbull’s former partner, discusses his memories of the early days of MLTW and Turnbull’s major commissions. Mitchell Schwarzer, then Executive Editor of Design Book Review (1999-2001), places Turnbull’s work in the context of the California Arts and Crafts Movement, Bay Area Regionalism, and vernacular architecture, while Mary Griffin, Turnbull’s wife and architectural partner, reveals the architect’s close ties to the land in her discussion of Teviot Springs, Turnbull’s home and vineyard in the Napa Valley.
Item #902624ISBN: 0965114481
10-1/8 x 13-1/4", quarter light gray cloth, pictorial paper over boards, light gray endpapers, 227pp, over 300 duotone images and illustrations.
Fine in rubbed very good original printed acetate with toning to spine and chipping to head of spine.
Price: $150.00